Tragic! Isn’t Chestnut the species that suffered a huge and almost total blight and died out a few years ago? I don’t think we have chestnut trees in Texas that I know of but I have seen them in Europe.
Yeah, Chestnuts got wiped out big time. There’a a standing debate about whether the ones here died from that, or were cut down because they were contemplating widening the street, or because a policeman ran into one of them and died—probably a combination.
We have Chinese chestnuts here—a few—they have bigger than baseball size prickly balls—you could kill someone with one of those things!